Fannie Mae-No Politics (FNMA)

[timster]

I don't post often. But the current circumstances remind me of a scene from a movie. If FnF go away I think affordable housing will go with it for many, since banks will be able to run everything a little more their own way. See if you remember this exchange.

Why... here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You... you said... what'd you say a minute ago? They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait? Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken down that they... Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5,000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about... they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him. But to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they're cattle.

I would only change the last line to "warped, frustrated old government".